Alleged China-linked hackers used SolarWinds bug to breach National Finance Center
Alleged China-linked hackers have exploited a flaw in the SolarWinds Orion software to hack systems at the U.S. National Finance...
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Would real identities make social media safer?
“Use real identities to reduce abuse online” is a talking point you’ve almost certainly seen down the years. It also...
Browser sync—what are the risks of turning it on?
Modern browsers include synchronization features (like Google Chrome’s Sync) so that all your browsers, on all your devices, share the...
The number of crimes with bank cards in Russia has increased by 5.5 times
Last year, 510.4 thousand crimes committed using information and telecommunications technologies were registered in Russia. According to the data of...
Chinese Firms Infiltrates into U.S. Healthcare Data
The gulf between the two most powerful nations has widened after the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC)...
Rasmus Myhrberg Won The Award For #1 “New Tool of the Year”!
Simple, a time tracking software wins #1 New Tool of the Year (2020). Major tech website "Stackshare" recently announced its...
Wind River Security Incident Exposed Personnel Records, SSNs, Passport Numbers
Wind River Systems, on Friday, cautioned of a "security incident" that had exposed personnel records. Wind River Systems, otherwise called...
Sprite Spider Emerging as One of The Most Destructive Ransomware Threat Actors
Recently, two CrowdStrike cybersecurity leads during a Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit at the SANS – Senior Security Researcher Sergei Frankoff, and Senior...
SonicWall SNWLID-2021-0001 Zero-Day and SolarWinds’ 2021 CVE Trifecta: What You Need to Know
Not content with the beating it laid down in January, 2021 continues to deliver with an unpatched zero-day exposure in...
Vulnerability Scanning With the Metasploit Remote Check Service (Beta Release)
InsightVM and Nexpose customers can now harness the power of the Metasploit community to assess their exposure to the latest...
Recently discovered CVE-2021-3156 SUDO bug also affects macOS Big Sur
Experts warn that the recently discovered heap-based buffer overflow bug in Linux SUDO also impacts the latest version of Apple...
Hackers stole personnel records of software developer Wind River
The global leader of embedded system software Wind River Systems discloses a data breach that resulted in the theft of...
Cyber Defense Magazine – February 2021 has arrived. Enjoy it!
Cyber Defense Magazine February 2021 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 108 pages of...
Police Exam Database Exposes 500K Indian Citizens ’ PII
CloudSEK has discovered a post on a well-known database sharing forum advertising the PII of 500,000 Indian citizens. While the...
Credit card skimmer piggybacks on Magento 1 hacking spree
Back in the fall of 2020 threat actors started to massively exploit a vulnerability in the no-longer maintained Magento 1...
Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords
The community of British Mensa, which is popularly known for its people with high IQs, they have failed to...
Medvedev mentions about the possible disconnection of Russia from the global network
Disconnecting Russia from the global network is possible, but the authorities have a plan of action in this case, said...
Hackers Attack Gaming Community Using Supply Chain Attacks
Researchers at ESET found that NoxPlayer's latest updated mechanism, which is an android emulator for macOS and Windows, was attacked...
Threat Actor Targets Outsourcing Firm Serco Via Babuk Ransomware
The outsourcing company responsible for NHS Test and Trace system in the UK confirmed this week that it was targeted...
FBI Warns Victims Against Scammers Threating with Jail Time
Recently the US FBI has noted an increase in phone calls that usually spoof the Bureau’s telephone number. The actors...
Kobalos, a complex Linux malware targets high-performance computing clusters
ESET experts uncovered a previously undocumented piece of malware that had been observed targeting high-performance computing clusters (HPC). ESET analyzed...
Ransomware operators exploit VMWare ESXi flaws to encrypt disks of VMs
Ransomware operators are exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992, to encrypt virtual hard disks. Security experts are warning...
CISA: Many victims of SolarWinds hackers had no direct connection to SolarWinds
The U.S. CISA reveals that many of the victims of the SolarWinds hackers had no direct connection to SolarWinds. The...
Experts discovered a new Trickbot module used for lateral movement
Experts spotted a new Trickbot module that is used to scan local networks and make lateral movement inside the target...
